Equating Safety With Technology

July 25, 1985|The Morning Call

To the Editor:

As the time approaches for the American taxpayer to foot the bill for Star Wars (a mere trillion dollars), I think we should ask ourselves whether there was ever a time in history when more technology made us safer? It seems to me that any effort on our part to make the Russian missiles ineffective would simply redouble their efforts to forestall that possibility. Safety does not lie in increasing our technology but in coming to terms with an arms race that is fueled by a mutual paranoia.